Bridget Christie's Weekend column
Bridget Christie: no one wants to talk about Brexit – and if we don’t, it will just go away. Right? Bridget Christie The EU referendum has exposed a nation divided in a a way we have not seen since the white-and-gold (or blue-and-black?) dress phenomenon
Bridget Christie: David Cameron is under pressure. Could that be sympathy I’m feeling? I’m not saying that, in a fleeting moment of something resembling humanity, he has cured my Tory phobia, or made me like him more than a dying rat. No
Bridget Christie: I have seen the future of sex education – and it’s privatised Who would David Cameron put in charge? How about porn baron’s daughter Jacqueline Gold?
Bridget Christie: showing off your luxury goods? That’s so last year Instead of impressing with designer handbags, flashy cars and massive rocks, the elite are repackaging their privilege to make them look less disgusting
Bridget Christie: why does George Osborne make me so angry? Let me count the ways… He represents everything I believe is fundamentally wrong and unjust
Bridget Christie: where do millennial dads get the energy for affairs? Some nights I’m so mentally and physically exhausted by work and house admin, I don’t even brush my teeth
Bridget Christie: the trouble with mobile phones Technology is ruining films, causing road traffic accidents, even affecting our sex lives
Bridget Christie: parenting advice? From a man who left his daughter in a pub toilet? David Cameron won’t be giving his new parenting classes personally, which is a shame
Bridget Christie: who needs self-help gurus? Here’s my free advice for decluttering your mind If I have any unresolved issues, any stupid, niggly things or people ruining my days, it’s like an empty bag of crisps in my head, that rustles every time I think
Bridget Christie: The greatest gift of Christmas? A social media truce It’s time for the Twitterati and Instagramati to take a rest, even if a mother does buy too many presents for her family
Bridget Christie: Hilary Benn and the trouble with audiences Cheering a call to war felt wrong and misjudged – like clapping a triumphant, ludicrously attired matador as a magnificent beast lies needlessly dying
Bridget Christie: feminism is off the syllabus – so the battle is won, right? ‘Now I don’t want to sound paranoid, but a pattern is starting to emerge’
Bridget Christie: Oh, to be Jeremy Clarkson! Clearly, I’ve been playing to the wrong crowd ‘Not only do feminists have no sense of humour, they don’t want anyone else to have one either’
Bridget Christie: Want to avoid other people’s music? May the force be with you ‘I’m made to listen to other people’s music choices, against my will, on public transport, in restaurants and lifts, in shops, when I’m on hold, even when giving birth’
Bridget Christie: 650m reasons to dislike Andrew Lloyd Webber He flew in to vote in support of tax credit cuts for the working poor. Time to send in the cats
Bridget Christie: feminine products a luxury? Hardly. At least Jeremy Corbyn understands ‘Corbyn is at least interested enough in the mysterious ways of the opposite sex’
Bridget Christie: what does a rapist look like anyway? If anyone has a right to be offended, it probably isn’t George Lawlor for being invited along to a sexual-consent workshop
